Prague. A beautiful city even when it's raining, but I don't think its food is going to be high in the ranks. Meat, bread and potatoes. I like my meat and potatoes, but my waistband doesn't feel the same when I have it every day, every meal.

The first traditional meal is pork neck with sauerkraut and a variety of dumplings. These are not chinese dumplings. To me, they just seemed like heavy, dense bread. My first and last time trying it.

For dinner, the recommended restaurant, Lokal, was booked up so we had to improvise with a limited amount of time. We had to be somewhere in 1 hour. We found a place with traditional fare and walked down to a completely empty cave like restaurant. Too hungry and too awkward to turn around and leave, we decided to stay put. The food was decent and we left full. The guys shared a beef tartar. I opted out and ate more pork neck.





For lunch the next day, I just didn't have it in me to take more meat. I warmed up with a noodle broth and ate a dish of baked barley. Food to fill me up and not to impress.



When it came to dinner, I sucked it up and participated in the group meat. We were at a medieval themed restaurant and ordering anything less than a hunk of meat would have been a waste of an experience. It was our last big meal in Prague and we had seen this dish served many times while walking the streets. This was 1kg of pork back knee. We shared this and a couple of appies amongst the four of us. When it comes to unconventional pig parts for food, pig's feet still stands higher for me.



I wasn't the only one feeling the meat heat. We all took it light for breakfast. I was forced to a lighter meal because I didn't have much in koruns left. I knew they would serve us bread, so I cheaped out and got scrambled eggs. For lunch I "penny pinched" again and grabbed a tuna baguette. $3! Dinner on the train was a $2 baguette from a 7 Eleven type shop on the train station. Just trying to get by.

I have higher hopes for Munich. Next!